Release of trace organic compounds during the decomposition of municipal solid waste components

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 5984-5991

  Staley, Bryan F ^a   Xu, Fangxiang ^a   Cowie, Steven J ^a,b   Barlaz, Morton A ^a   Hater, Gary R ^c  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Joyce Engineering Inc   (United States)

^c WASTE MANAGEMENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD WASTES; NON-METHANE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (NMOC); SPECIATED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (SOC);

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; DECOMPOSITION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LAND FILL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLID WASTES;

WASTE TREATMENT;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; METHANE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SILOXANE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; DECOMPOSITION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LAND FILL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLID WASTES; WASTE TREATMENT;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DECOMPOSITION; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIC CONDITIONS; TRACE METAL;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; COMPOSTING; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; FOOD; GAS; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PAPER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON DIOXIDE; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FOOD; METHANE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PAPER; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; POACEAE; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 33749406879     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060786m     Document Type: Article

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